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Talk of the special Blackadder reminded me of this

Did anyone here go to the Millennium Dome?

No doubt many of you southerners all went, probably on a school trip or something

Was it really "one amazing day", or did you spend all your time looking around and thinking how many hospitals could have been built with the money?

I went to the Dome. I thought it was a good enough day out. Not amazing or out of this world, but good.

I never had any quibble with the intention behind it, a kind of Festival of Britain for the Millennium.

It's a shame that it didn't work out properly, and undoubtedly the thing has been poorly handled from start to finish.

But people tend to forget that despite falling so far short of the wildly unrealistic visitor number projections, it was still the most popular paid-for attraction in the UK in the year 2000.

I know I went... I'm sure of it, but I have no memory of any of it apart from sitting in a cafe thing near the big body thing.

I went to the dome. My opinion on it? It was a brilliant, enjoyable, and interesting day out. But was it a big cultural experience? Not really. And was it worth what it cost? Not at all.

Personally I think the biggest scandal of the dome is not it's construction for Y2K, but that it now stands all but unused. A facility of that scale, with the excellent transport links that it enjoys (it even has it's own tube station) should certainly be better utilised.

I never went, I know a few people who did (one of them who brought back a Milliennium Dome mug back for me) and from what they said they enjoyed it, wasn't spectacular, but alright.

It's just a shame it was only open for one year, you'd have thought they'd keep it open for a few at least, as it did cost alot of money and I'm not sure if they made any profit from it.

Plus I also know it had a McDonalds. (How sad)

It's just a shame it was only open for one year, you'd have thought they'd keep it open for a few at least, as it did cost alot of money and I'm not sure if they made any profit from it.

Plus I also know it had a McDonalds. (How sad)

They couldn't have kept it open for any longer, it was a constant cash drain and only stayed open for the whole year in the interests of saving face. If it had to rely on private sector funding it wouldn't have lasted more than a month.

At first, they did plan to keep it open for two years if there was demand for it. There wasn't.

cwathen wrote:it was a constant cash cow

I don't think that's quite what you mean...

I fail to see why it isn't used more. The london eye, is a london attraction they got right, used loads in films, blown up at new years and is now a sign of London. The dome could easly be the same if they put something in it, or lit it, or did SOMETHING with it.

I find it difficult to comprehend that it cost three quarters of a billion pounds and was essentially a tent. A tent with an expected lifespan of 25 years. A tent which stands completely empty. Even now it is riddled with holes, I understand.

Scandalous.

It does at least silence the ciritics of the Scottish Parliament as it cost half as much and will last for hundreds and hundreds of years and has a function. Surely the most important aspect of any building?

I went & like others good not fantastic.

The one I liked was then different changes in temprature (if anybody knows the name of it at all). The Body was actually my least favourtie, mainly becaus eit was overhyped

Gavin Scott wrote: It does at least silence the ciritics of the Scottish Parliament as it cost half as much and will last for hundreds and hundreds of years and has a function. Surely the most important aspect of any building?

I think I'd prefer to have the parly in the dome rather than that ramshakle looks-unfinished hut that we've got now.